Rupert Murdoch Plans To Hide His Sites From Google, The World Yawns

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The media today is widely reporting an excerpt from Rupert Murdoch’s interview with Sky News Australia, in which he says he plans to make News Corp sites invisible to Google’s search engine.

While Murdoch has been on the verge of saying that for quite a while now, this is the first time he actually uttered it. But one has to listen to the entire interview to understand that Murdoch is not quite clear about what, exactly, he plans to do, and even if he is, it doesn’t make much sense.

You can see the interview below, but I’ll hightlight several interesting points which show just how imprecise and confusing Murdoch’s plans sound.

Early in the interview he says the following:

“There are no websites, news websites or blog sites anywhere in the world today making any serious money. Some maybe break even, or make a couple of million.”

This is one rich media mogul talking right there. I don’t have to explain it to you, folks: breaking even or making a couple of million is not the same. It’s an important sentence because it shows that Murdoch is not only interested in making money; he’s interested in making obnoxious amounts of money. And we’re supposed to pay for it.

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